Inn is to open at the former site of the Blue Oyster, owner Mr. David Le'Strange said at a news conference organised by the West End Development Corporation.

The Waterside Inn will be open seven days a week for breafast, lunch, and dinner, Mr. Le'Strange said.

"I've gotten rid of all the plastic furniture,'' and replaced it with rattan, he said. He also installed custom-made table tops, new signs, and trelliswork.

Mr. Le'Strange was formerly the general manager of Fourways Inn. Bill and Wendy Meade, who ran the Blue Oyster Restaurant, left Bermuda last September, leaving behind debts of $250,000.

MAN FINED $50 FOR STEALING RUM CTS Man fined $50 for stealing rum Smuggling a bottle of rum out of a supermarket by stuffing it down his trousers cost a 33-year-old Pembroke man $50 in Magistrates Court yesterday.

Prosecutor Sgt. Ken James said a security guard at the A-1 supermarket in Smith's Parish saw Antwan Lewis take a bottle of Bacardi rum off a shelf on April 14.

He walked past the check-out without paying for it, and left the store. Guards confronted him outside where he admitted stealing the rum, pulling it out of the front of his trousers.

Lewis, who admitted the offence, told Magistrate the Wor. John Judge he was sorry he did it.

MAN `HAD TO' STEAL CIGARETTE PACKET CTS Man `Had to' steal cigarette packet A craving for nicotine landed a 32-year-old Salvation Army shelter resident in jail yesterday.

Steven Mills pleaded guilty in Magistrates Court to stealing a $3.25 pack of Camels from the Phoenix Centre on Thursday afternoon.

The court heard that moments later Mills returned the pack to the store.

However, Prosecutor Sgt. Ken James said, 13 of the 20 cigarettes were missing.

Sgt. James said Mills admitted to Police he stole the cigarettes, saying "I needed them''.

Magistrate the Wor. John Judge, noting Mills had a three-month suspended prison sentence hanging over his head, activated it after sentencing him to seven days in prison for the offence.

HEALTHY MAN TIRED TO STAY IN HOSPITAL CTS Healthy man tired to stay in hospital A 40-year-old man was taken straight to the Police station after being released from hospital, Magistrates' Court heard yesterday.

Burnel Wilson, who admitted using offensive words in public, had attended the Emergency Department of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital on April 7, Prosecutor Sgt. Kenrick James said.

After examining him for an alleged arm injury, doctors found nothing wrong with him and released him.

But Wilson refused to leave and became abusive. He started swearing, causing patients and nurses to stop and stare, Sgt. James said. Police were called and Wilson was taken away.

Magistrate the Wor. John Judge told Wilson he had showed a "total disregard'' for hospital patients and fined him $250.

ELECTRICIAN ADMITS CHEQUE FORGERIES CTS Electrician admits cheque forgeries Police prosecutor Sgt. Kenrick James described a Pembroke electrician's long list of crimes as "horrendous.'' Carl Raynor, 31, of Curving Court, admitted 13 charges involving falsifiying cheques which he had stolen.

Raynor stole the cheques while he was working at the home of a St. George's woman.

He then falsified the cheques to gain a total of $508 from the Bank of Butterfield and the Bermuda Public Services Association.

Sgt. James said none of the money had been returned.

"He has a horrendous list of criminal convictions for similar matters, numbering about five pages.'' He also owed $8,000 to the mother of his 12-year-old son.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis asked for a social inquiry report on Raynor and remanded him in custody.